I would say that believing that unalienable rights come from our Creator is based on the supernatural but that beliefs in the intrinsic value of money and rational democracy are not. Hence, the first is not a secular religion but the other two are.
I think the idea of “inalienable” means that rights are intrinsic, and thus comes from no one.
250 years and five days ago, the signers of our Declaration of Independence stated that all “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life.” I believe that everyone has a right to life, and that this right comes from our Creator. It’s one of the things I will be celebrating on Saturday.
Maybe there are people who believe that basic rights do not come from our Creator. When presidential candidate Harris quoted from the Declaration of Independence, she left out the words about a right to life that comes from our Creator. I don’t think she believes in a Creator or in a right to life. She may very well have a secular religion.
However, I think that the best-known statement about inalienable rights is the one in our Declaration of Independence, to which many thoughtful men put their signatures.
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Astounding really, when you think about it as to how perfectly succinct those three things are as goals for humanity to strive for. We have the capability as a species to reach said goals, which reveals humanity’s biggest tragedy; not ascending as a species to those goals.
You skipped Section 5 of the Bill of Rights, which means one is also free to argue that inalienable human rights do not come from a Creator.
Given that, where do they come from? Theists believe that they come from a Creator. Atheists believe that they are intrinsic and by default present. Both believe based on faith, which is why atheism is a secular religion.
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You are 100 percent correct. Atheism is secular religion. 
I didn’t skip anything. I wasn’t quoting the Constitution at all. I quoted only a few words from the Declaration of Independence showing that the signers and I agree that the right to life comes from God. I didn’t say that in America people are not free to believe otherwise. It doesn’t mean that these people are right. The signers of the Declaration of Independence and I and a good many others believe that inalienable rights come from God. If that’s a secular religion, I don’t disown it.
According to the framers, the Declaration of Independence is based on inalienable human rights, and that those rights come from a Creator. But the same rights include freedom of religious expression, which allow people to argue against that belief.
And since there is no scientific evidence to prove the existence of a Creator, then both the belief in inalienable rights as coming from God and as intrinsic are based on faith.
That’s why atheism is a secular religion.